Insufficient balance

  The Five Mountains Sword Technique left on the cliff wall was too important for the Huashan School, so Yue Buqun used his extraordinary lightness skill to rush down the mountain and fetch a large quantity of white paper and brushes. Together with Linghu Chong, he transcribed all the sword moves from the stone wall onto paper. Then, the two of them worked together to re-seal the entire cave, preventing others from discovering it.

  After doing all this, Old Yue excitedly hugged the stack of white paper with the Five Mountains Sword Manual and returned to the sect to make plans, while Linghu Chong remained at Thoughtless Cliff, preparing to break through.

  It's been several days, and Linghu Cong still can't find a way to break through. He clearly feels that he has reached the critical point of breaking through, and with just a slight push, he can shatter it and enter a new realm, but somehow he really can't find where the window is.

  He sighed softly, and indeed, breakthroughs in martial arts were all about opportunities and timing. If the time wasn't right, being impatient would be useless. For many days, Linghu Chong had been at a loss, so he decided to take a stroll around the Reflection Cliff, also known as the Thoughtless Cliff, to get a feel for this mystical place from the original book.

  "Hmm, who left this sword mark? It's so sharp." In the innermost small cave of the Thoughtless Cliff Cave, Linghu Chong discovered a stone tablet with multiple sword marks carved on it. The edges were exposed and the sword energy was palpable, only perceivable by a high-level swordsman.

  This stone monument is worn out and full of marks left by the erosion of time, plus a master has left his mark on it.

  "Feng Qing Yang!" Finally, on the back of the stone tablet in a small corner, Linghu Chong saw three complete and elegant yet sharp characters. He couldn't help but read them out loud.

  No wonder, the entire world of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer uses this kind of swordsmanship, and it seems that only one person, Feng Qingyang, the Sword Saint, has a connection with Mount Hua Sect.

  In the original work, Tian Boguang went up the mountain to bind Linghu Chong and down the mountain. It was the appearance of this Huashan School's only surviving Fengzi generation elder who taught Linghu Chong the first three moves of the Dugu Nine Swords, thoroughly humiliating Tian Boguang. From then on, Tian Boguang, as a top-notch martial artist in his prime, could only follow behind Linghu Chong and eat dust.

  In this life, a brand new Linghu Chong who traveled through time and space not only learned the Du Gu Nine Swords in advance but also obtained the legacy of several unparalleled masters who dominated an era of martial arts. There is also that legendary heavy sword, Xuan Tie, which was tempered by Guo Jing and Huang Rong into the Invincible Divine Sword, allowing his potential to directly surpass all legends of ancient times.

  Linghu Chong also eagerly hopes to fight against the world's top masters in the "Laughing in the Wind and Sighing in the Clouds" world, to verify his own martial arts skills. So Linghu Chong starts searching for Feng Qingyang's trail, but unfortunately, after searching the entire Mount Hua, he gains nothing. Feng Qingyang's martial arts have reached the peak of the world's top masters, and even if a high-ranking master wants to hide their aura, they can't be discovered by an absolute master of a higher level.

  Knowing that Wind Qiang Yang was hiding in the back mountain of Huashan, if Wind Qiang Yang did not take the initiative to show up, Linghu Cong would also be unable to find him for a while. Helpless, he had no choice but to return to the top of Si Gu Cliff to practice his skills.

  Since the simultaneous completion of Beiming Divine Skill and Jiu Yang Divine Skill, a millet-sized golden elixir was formed in Linghu Chong's dantian. Around the golden elixir, whirlpools of true energy automatically rotated. Even if Linghu Chong did not deliberately cultivate his internal energy, the primordial energy of heaven and earth would still gather from the top of his head and flow into his dantian. Therefore, even when he was sleeping, his body would instinctively absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth to strengthen his inner power and cultivation.

  This discovery made Lin Feng extremely excited. In his previous life, Lin Feng was a complete otaku. The biggest common point of all otakus is one word - laziness! Now that he had an external aid to help him cultivate, how could Lin Feng not be delighted?

  However, the speed of this autonomous absorption is slightly slower. The Huashan School's Thinking Cliff is at the top, with a full spiritual energy, and Linghu Chong runs the North Ming Divine Art with all his might. A stream of spiritual energy that is difficult to see with the naked eye, only the highest masters can feel it, rushes towards Linghu Chong who is sitting on the ground. As Linghu Chong gradually enters a state of ecstasy, the spiritual energy within a radius of ten miles around him gathers towards the Thinking Cliff of Huashan, and the spiritual energy around the top of the cliff is about to condense into substance.

  This change in the world naturally caught the attention of Feng Qingyang, the top master who was hiding behind Mount Hua. The older he got, the smaller his heart became, and his curiosity grew heavier. When he encountered something that happened only once in a hundred years, and it was right at his doorstep, how could Feng Qingyang not go to investigate? With a slap on his thigh, he headed towards the center of the spiritual energy gathering, rushing to Mount Hua's Si Gu Yan.

  Since the great success of his self-cultivation, Linghu Chong was running both types of divine skills at full strength for the first time, absorbing a vast amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. The massive spiritual energy poured into Linghu Chong's 34 million pores and eventually all flowed along the meridians to return to the dantian. Finally, the golden elixir in the dantian underwent a qualitative change due to quantitative changes, suddenly growing from the size of a grain of rice to that of a soybean. The true energy surrounding the golden elixir also became increasingly condensed, almost solidifying.

  A long-standing bottleneck that had never been broken through was suddenly overcome with just one full-force operation, leaving Linghu Chong to bitterly smile.

  "Huh!" Linghu Chong finished his cultivation and let out a long, murky breath. He had known all along that directly absorbing enough spiritual energy would allow him to break through, but he had still gone searching for that damned inspiration, wasting several good days and ending up eating and sleeping poorly. Alas, martial arts are going to be the death of me!

  "Huh? There's actually a master!" Linghu Chong's expression changed, his current internal strength and sensitivity of the five senses were absolutely top-notch in the world of Laughing in the Wind, but he was so absorbed in his practice just now that someone had managed to sneak up beside him. Fortunately, the other party didn't have malicious intentions; otherwise, if they had made a sneak attack at this critical moment, it would have been certain to cause him to go berserk and suffer a permanent disability.

  "It's so close yet I just discovered it, although there's the reason of being too engrossed in practicing martial arts, but this person's cultivation is still unfathomably deep," Linghu Chong thought to himself: "This person must have been brought here by the strange phenomenon caused by my absorption of spiritual energy, and being able to arrive so quickly means that this person is near Huashan Sect, and such a person with such cultivation, it seems like there's only one!"

  "Master Wind, show yourself!" Linghu Chong shouted loudly as he stood up.

  All around was the sound of strong winds blowing, but Feng Qingyang did not appear. Although Linghu Chong suddenly called out his name and nearly scared him to death, it also piqued his interest even more.

  "How did this kid know my name and identity!" Feng Qingyang thought to himself, "Could it be that Yue Buqun told him, wanting me to show up and help him guard the Huashan Sect?"

  At the moment when Feng Qingyang's body shook, Linghu Chong immediately sensed his position and found that he was hiding behind a boulder. With a sweep of his divine consciousness, Linghu Chong sensed an old man with white clothes and hair, who was crouching behind the boulder with a sly expression.

  Linghu Chong smiled with satisfaction, breaking through the pinnacle of martial arts and reaching the realm of a supreme master. After that, his body would undergo earth-shattering changes, not only absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish his internal consumption but also evolving his original sixth sense in martial arts into divine consciousness, allowing him to control and observe all things in the world more clearly.

  "Master Wind, you're quite old now, why are you crouching so low? The stone is dirty and the ground is cold, get up before you catch a chill." Linghu Chong smiled towards Feng Qingyang's direction and said, "Your disciple's hands have been itching lately, I was thinking of finding you for a one-on-one duel!"

  (First update of the second part, Xiao Pang drank a bowl of soup first, and then continued to code. Everyone can collect it while reading books)